Alexander Shulan

MAY 2015 | ArtSeen

In one famous scene in Jacques Tatis 1958 film Mon Oncle, Tatis character Monsieur Hulot tries to open the kitchen cabinet in his brother-in-laws hyper modern suburban home. He pulls repeatedly on the cabinets handle, but cannot open it. He accidentally tricks some switch and the doors fly open without warning, comically spilling their contents onto the floor.

OCT 2013 | ArtSeen

With his new exhibition Something Ancient, Something New, Something Stolen, Something Blue, Matthew Day Jackson unfurls a nightmarish and mythological American landscape reminiscent of the sort described in Cormac McCarthys post-apocalyptic novel The Road.

DEC 13-JAN 14 | ArtSeen

Using an assortment of Arte Povera type materials, Los Angeles based artist Fran Siegel constructs dense, eclectic visualizations of the history and demographic composition of different urban environments through the media of drawing and collage.

FEB 2014 | ArtSeen

On New Years 2011, Kim Dotcom, the online entrepreneur, hacker, and Internet pirate, sat in his private helicopter watching a half million dollar firework display that he gave to New Zealand as a thank-you for granting him citizenship.

NOV 2013 | ArtSeen

One late evening in October 1972, the artist Chris Burden mounted two large Xs on a road in Southern California, lit them on fire, and left the area. One can only imagine the visceral, hyper-real experience of encountering such a spectacle on an empty road in the middle of the night.